The common medical devices don’t work as well for Black patients. The FDA is now trying to do something about it.

Researchers from UCSF are leading an effort to find out which pulse oximeters work equally well on all skin colors. NBC News' Erika Edwards reports.Jan. 19, 2025 ...

Draft recommendations from the FDA call for larger, more inclusive studies to ensure pulse oximeters work for people with ...

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance would require manufacturers of pulse oximeters to gather far more clinical data to show the devices accurately work across a range of skin tones.

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a long-awaited plan aimed at improving how pulse oximeters work on people with darker skin — an effort that comes years after research showing ...

Work by device manufacturers to improve the performance of pulse oximeters on people with darker skin has progressed little since the Food and Drug Administration asked manufacturers in 2013 to ...

What prompted the new plan – and why does it matter? However, there’s a problem with the way that pulse oximeters work: they’re affected by the presence of pigments in the skin. Darker skin ...

The FDA has published a set of long-awaited recommendations to the industry to help ensure pulse oximeters work correctly across all skin tones. The agency’s new draft guidance document comes ...

Is skin pigmentation the ultimate problem with pulse oximeters? Maybe, maybe not. “The question that everybody wants to know right now is: Which devices work equally well, regardless of skin ...

But her request for supplemental oxygen while hospitalized was denied, Starr said, because readings from a pulse oximeter on her finger falsely ... which measure oxygen levels in the blood, may not ...